Washington, May 10 (ANI): The team operating NASA's Curiosity Mars rover on Mars has selected a second target rock for drilling and sampling, it has been revealed.

New York, Apr.25 (ANI): The New York Police Department (NYPD) is planning to join hands with a national laboratory to track the movement of harmless tracer gases and study dispersion of chemical weapons through the air into the city's subway system.

Washington, Apr 13 (ANI): A northeastern Chinese city near the border with North Korea has staged an air raid drill in the wake of rising tensions over Pyongyang's latest threats.

Washington, Apr 9 (ANI): Chinese officials have declined to blame North Korea for ongoing tensions in the Korean Peninsula and called for an easing of tensions in the region.

Manila, April 5 (Xinhua-ANI):Top officials from the United States and Philippines on Friday formally started a joint military exercise which will involve 8,000 troops from both countries and dozens of military assets, including a squadron of F/A-18 Hornet fighter jets.

Seoul, April 4 (Xinhua-ANI): South Korea's Defense Minister Kim Kwan-jin said Thursday that North Korea has moved an intermediate-range missile to its east coast for test- firing or a military drill.

Washington, Apr 1 (ANI): The United States has reportedly deployed stealth fighter jets to South Korea as part of ongoing joint military exercises between the two nations.

Washington, March 19 (ANI): NASA's Mars rover Curiosity has found evidence of water-bearing minerals in rocks near where it had already found clay minerals inside a drilled rock.

London, Mar 16 (ANI): North Korea has reportedly test-fired a pair of short-range missiles into its eastern waters.

Tehran, Feb. 25 (Xinhua-ANI): Commander of Iran's Army Ground Forces Brigadier General Ahmad-Reza Pourdastan announced that the Iranian Army will hold a military exercise in the southwest of the country by the end of the current Iranian calendar year (March 20), Tehran Times daily reported Monday.

Washington, Feb. 24 (ANI): North Korea has warned the top American commander in South Korea of "miserable destruction" if the U.S. military presses ahead with routine joint drills with South Korea set to begin next month.

Washington, February 21 (ANI): NASA's Mars rover Curiosity has relayed new images, which confirm that it has successfully obtained the first sample ever collected from the interior of a rock on another planet.

London, February 17 (ANI): NASA's Curiosity Mars rover has not yet ingested the rock sample it picked up a week ago, but the mission's scientists are hoping that it will happen very shortly.

New Delhi, Feb. 13 (ANI): With the collaboration and guidance of the National Disaster Management Authority (NDMA) a mega mock drill on earthquake preparedness was conducted by the states of Haryana, Himachal Pradesh, Punjab and Union Territory of Chandigarh in the tri-cities of Chandigarh, Mohali and Panchkula and at Shimla today.

Washington, February 10 (ANI): NASA's Curiosity Mars rover has, for the first time, used a drill carried at the end of its robotic arm to collect a sample of Martian bedrock that might offer evidence of a long-gone wet environment.

London, Feb 9 (ANI): NASA's Curiosity rover has discovered a mysterious metal object emerging from rock on the surface of Mars.

London, Feb 8 (ANI): NASA's Mars rover Curiosity has turned its drill in rock for the first time.

London, February 4 (ANI): The US space agency's Mars rover Curiosity has used its drill system for the first time, hammering down briefly into a flat slab of rock on the floor of Gale Crater.

New Delhi, Feb 1 (ANI): The National Disaster Management Authority (NDMA) will conduct mega mock drills to generate greater awareness among people about earthquakes on February 13.

London, Jan. 29 (ANI): An American attempt to bore down into Lake Whillans, buried almost one kilometer under the Antarctic ice, has achieved its aim.

Washington, January 26 (ANI): A new military report has found that dozens of German soldiers in the Wachbataillon unit have developed boobs because the drills they perform stimulate male mammary glands.

London, January 24 (ANI): Ice cores drilled in the Greenland ice sheet are giving scientists their clearest insight to a world that was warmer than today.

Sydney, Jan 22(ANI): Australian hopes of winning the last one-day against Sri Lanka in Hobart to level the series was dealt major blow after captain Michael Clarke rolled his ankle at training on Tuesday during a simple fielding drill and was carried from the ground.

Washington, January 16 (ANI): NASA's Mars rover Curiosity is driving towards a flat rock with pale veins that may hold clues to a wet history on the Red Planet.

London, January 5 (ANI): NASA's Mars rover Curiosity is very close to drilling into its first rock on the Red Planet, with the set-up operation likely to begin next week, it has been revealed.